January 3rd, 2010
So, my nice thing for today involves my sister. I know what you're thinking. But Betsy, you say, your sister got to be your Saturday. Ah, yes, faithful reader (of which there are few of you) you are correct, but you see, the difference is that yesterday she knew she was the recipient of my nice deed. Today, however, she will never know.
Anyway, what I did for my sister was simple. I spent the evening with her. In fact, I spent a lot of today with her. You're probably saying, but Betsy, you spent an hour in the car with her yesterday. You have to understand, however, that this car ride was my sister and her friends. And my sister is not my sister around her friends, which is how you get to a place where it's considered a nice thing to spend the evening with her.
Here's the background on Maggie and I, because you have to understand it. Maggie is the youngest and has always been treated like it. Especially since my brother and I went away to school, she has been treated as an only child. So is it Maggie who is to blame for her selfishness, or my parents who had no other children to devote their attention to? Probably about equal if we're being honest. Anyway, I guess that's been the hardest thing about being home is noticing this change in her where everything is about Maggie, all the time. The saddest part is that neither side realizes they're doing it.
Anyway, we started the evening watching Desperate Housewives. At this point, I was feeling kind of tired (which is so lame because I literally got 12 hours of sleep last night) but I decided to stay up and hang out with Maggie. Well, after the show we decided to watch a movie. She wanted to watch something scary, but I saw Sunshine Cleaning was on demand, and had heard it was pretty good. As it turns out, it is actually really good and is all about the relationship between sisters. So there we were, gabbing through the movie and discussing how we would react. And I realized I got to enjoy my nice act for today.
So thanks Maggie for being my Sunday
Be Nice ;)
On a side note, I received an email reply from Joe today from my nice act on Day 1. He appreciated it and said he actually had looked at a few schools and was slowly starting the grad school process. So there. Nice act accomplished!